A thought before bed

[quietprofanity]

The Twilight Lady is like the cardboard box in the toybox that is the Watchmen fandom. Nothing's in it. It's really only surface. And yet somehow everyone's got great ideas for it and wants to play with it.

(Not that I didn't give the box a spin ... noooooo.)

Comments

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Matt is ... :/

And yeah, I'd agree with pretty all of that. Including the part about there being so few female masks in the Watchman-verse. :-(

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

D'oh, silly me. Matt is a Death Note character who is insanely popular in the fandom (and half of one of the most popular slash pairings) despite only having about two scenes in canon. He's become controversial for that reason: to some he's their favorite character, while others say his fans just project personalities onto him.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Ah. Interesting. I've really got to pick up Death Note again, even if it will most likely make my feminist sense go beserk.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one of the risks of reading Death Note...

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

It's too bad, because I read the first ... three volumes, maybe? The one where Misa shows up at the end and it's her first appearance or whatever. So I love the mental dueling and L and all that and I'd love to get back to it but I'm like, "Ohhhh a rude awakening is around the corner, huh?"

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Misa makes me want to choke things, so I don't think you'll like where that goes...There's a lot to like about Death Note, but feminist it's not.